Lemmy

I’m doing my part! After killing my 11 year old Reddit account

But....but...I like lurking.

@bitsplease Hey all, I want you to think of this as rebooting the internet. YOU are the starter now. This whole fediverse concept is relatively new to a lot of people, but can make a whole lot of new websites be like what the internet was supposed to be. Please, be the forefront, be the internet you want to see. You can't lurk because without you, WE won't see anything. Content may be made by others, but you obsorb it and can pass it on. Just like gossip around the office, you have to be the one to help spread it otherwise there is no tea at the end of the day. This brought me out of my lurking shell. I've commented everywhere I even see! Join us! Share us! Be a part of this whole shift in the newest "generation" of internet!

Reddit refugee here! Hope to see Lemmy, Mastodon and the Fediverse become super popular down the line!

I’ve always lurked on Reddit but I’ll try my best to comment more

Interesting comment here, please upvote

I'll try my best not to be such a lurker. A fresh start on here might be what I need to get me out of my comfort zone.

but i don't have anything to say

other than fuck spez of course

I think the presently smaller user base makes it easier to feel comfortable posting and talking, plus I feel as if many could be motivated to participate more because of the ideals the community upholds through FOSS. It certainly feels good to post here, a more guilt free experience.

Yeah I keep telling myself to comment. It really doesn't come naturally to me after years of lurking.

I have no idea what I'm doing

Does posting and replying from another server count as "not lurking"?

Hello everyone. This is literally the first thing I'm clicking on after registering

I've just created [email protected] and [email protected], does that count? :P

Alright sir, I shall upvote and comment whenever I feel I have something useful to add!

I already blocked access to reddit on my network, so lurking is not an option for me ;)

This is probably the first-ever post to surpass 1,000 upvotes.

I think, for mass appeal lemmy will ultimatively need communities for popular topics (games, trends, etc.), which can bring in lots of new users. From what I've seen so far the topics are still rather niche, or can't compete with identical communites on major platforms. When the traction starts getting big enough, it might just run on its own.

This comment is also more or less a test, trying out the platform.

I've always been a lurker on the other site but I think I'll be much more active on here!

Bro literally triggered lurkers

One thing that might keep people off is how communities are created/duplicated on Lemmy. I mean you can have the exact same community but on different instances. Then you start asking yourself which one should I join? or perhaps both? This definitely will confuse people.

Another lurker here. Been well over a decade and this is the first time I feel like contributing again. Really hope the fediverse catches on this time.

Me not lurking

I couldn’t agree more!

In effort to try to add value to posting, I found a mobile app for iPhone. It’s clearly in beta. I’m not associated with them at all, and I hope they don’t mind me posting the results of my Brave search.

https://testflight.apple.com/join/xQfmkJhc

I remember reddit in 08 and it was better, less toxicity

wildly hits keys on the keyboard

Completely agree! I was a lurker on Reddit. I’m trying to be more active here. It seems less intimidating than Reddit.

I joined Lemmy today. I've been getting into Mastodon recently as well and I have to say the comfy feeling I'm getting from the governance resiliency of FOSS and federated spaces(FFOSS?) is wonderful. This has the same feeling as when I first tried GNU/Linux so many years ago. :D

well this felt like a personal callout but i will try a little to do this, and to be active as a user rather than a lurker

Aye, captain o7! I've pretty much always lurked online, something about making posts that will possibly be on the internet forever scares me. Despite my anxiety, I've posted some art on my Kbin account, might upload some cat pics soon too.

Trying hard! What I'd need is a browser extension (Firefox) that just sends me to the fediverse as soon as I type "old.reddit.com" into the address bar to kill some time. Old habits die hard.